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Five ways to improve your performance

Five ways to improve your performance - LinkedIn Learning Tutorial

From the course: LinkedIn Learning Highlights

Five ways to improve your performance

(dynamic music) - The first strategy to use in changing your habits is the strategy of monitoring. Now, monitoring has kind of an uncanny power. It turns out that whenever we monitor anything that we're doing, we tend to do a better job, even if we're not consciously trying to change, whether that's monitoring what we eat, how much we spend. There's something about just looking at how much we're doing something and tracking it that helps us do a better job. - We'd all like to be better listeners, but it can be hard to will ourselves to pay full attention. Here's the thing, if you've been listening in a cursory fashion for years, you might not even realize it, but the information you're taking in might only be the surface, the tip of the iceberg. But when you become a better listener, you get access to what's hidden, the nuances that can make all the difference. - The truth is that admitting you're wrong or admitting you don't know something earns you trust and respect. Here's why…

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